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The anonymous cantata "Chiuso è già Borea nevoso"
Over 230,000 sources in the RISM online catalog are anonymous and often languish unnoticed. One cantata, however, shows that it is sometimes worth it to leave trusted paths of inquiry: this beautiful manuscript from 1716. As a matter of fact, we know quite a bit about the work: Antonio Ottoboni...
20 August 2020 – Library collections
A Royal Library: King Ludwig II's Music Collection
One of the people with a major birthday in 2020 is King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was born 175 years ago on August 25, 1845. (Here’s a song to celebrate him.) King Ludwig is a figure who probably needs no introduction: his fairy-tale castles belong to the itineraries of...
17 August 2020 – Musical anniversaries
Online Muscat Workshop with the Chopin Institute (Warsaw) In the Age of the Corona Pandemic
Online Muscat Workshop 3-7 August 2020 in English with the Chopin Institute (Warsaw) in the Age of the Corona Pandemic Workshop leaders: Guido Kraus (RISM Central Office, Frankfurt am Main) and Marcelina Chojecka (Chopin Institute NIFC, Warsaw) The RISM Central Office in Frankfurt am Main continues to work closely together...
13 August 2020 – Events
Lost and Found: Gottfried Kirchhoff's "L'A.B.C. musical"
Our RISM ears pricked up at last year’s IAML Congress in Kraków when Kirill Diskin and Maksim Serebrennikov (Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory), delivering their paper “Foreign book rarities in the library of the S. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory,” said that their library holds a printed music edition that is...
10 August 2020 – Rediscovered
Gaetano Brunetti manuscripts online at the Library of Congress
We have received the following from our colleagues at the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress’ Music Division has put 53 holograph and 64 copyist manuscripts of Italian composer Gaetano Brunetti online. Gaetano Brunetti (1744-1798) was an Italian composer and violinist who moved to Spain as a teenager in...
3 August 2020 – Library collections
Looking back 300 years ago: Mattheson's "Der brauchbare Virtuoso" from 1720
It’s not only numerous composers who are celebrating major anniversaries: compositions are too. When you think of Johann Mattheson, you might first think of his writings that appeared in Hamburg, Der vollkommene Capellmeister (1739) or his Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte (1740). But this time we’re going to look at the twelve...
27 July 2020 – Musical anniversaries
The Music for Richard Wagner's "Rienzi" Preserved in Dresden
This weekend was supposed to see the opening of the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. Instead, a full, alternative program is planned. We’ll take this opportunity to take a look at the music preserved for Richard Wagner’s Rienzi, which was used in Dresden over a long period of time. The music...
23 July 2020 – In the news
Das Notenmaterial zu Richard Wagners "Rienzi" in Dresden
In Bayreuth wären am kommenden Wochenende die Festspiele eröffnet worden; stattdessen gibt es ein umfangreiches Ersatzprogramm. Wir nutzen die Gelegenheit und werfen einen Blick in das Notenmaterial zu Richard Wagners Rienzi, welches über einen langen Zeitraum in Dresden verwendet wurde. Das Material wird in zwei Einheiten im Notenarchiv der Sächsischen...
23 July 2020 – Electronic resources
Workshop on Printed Music at the Chopin Institute, Warsaw
We have received the following from Marcelina Chojecka (Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, Warsaw): On 10 July 2020 we held a lecture and training session called “A few identification methods for printed music from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.” Participants under Jeremiusz Glensk’s direction learned how to identify editions, issues,...
20 July 2020 – Events
Giovanni (Battista) Bononcini’s 350th Birthday
Giovanni Bononcini (born 18 July 1670 in Modena - died 9 July 1744 in Vienna) was from a musical family and probably received his first lessons from his father, who died early. Beginning in 1678, he took cello lessons from Giovanni Paolo Colonna. After several stations in Italy, Vienna became...
16 July 2020 – Musical anniversaries
